IN DEFENCE OF THE CINEMA.
I become very impatient with many_ of those resolutions passed from time to time on the so-called immorality of the cinema, I have a genuine grievance against those people, I had never been a plcturegoer. But a month ao-o I decided to go, and I so thoroughly enjoyed it that I saw with. gusto* twenty-six films in the month. AU of them were singularly free from anythinf like sexual immorality. Heaven known whv° many of them are labelled "recommended for adults." They were the most innocuous stuff I ever saw. No, good pictures are like good journalism, the antithesis of the jejuneness of broadcasting, and the most wholesome influence of the age. In some of the great (yes, great) pictures of the month there was fun galore, love making and sentimentality, but nothing prurient. Yet w«» are compelled to tolerate these fatuous resolutions on much that is really classical; and none of it is so lacking in quality as many radio programmes and church sermons. It is sad° It is deplorable. But there it is. ISHMAEL.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 51, 1 March 1935, Page 6
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